I am running Debian 2.2, with upgrade to WOody from debian.org via FTP.
I have been running well for over 5 months without reboot(!) or maintenance.
I went to fetch a new package, and my system decided it wanted to get 108 MB of updates. It failed on a bunch of them, I tried again, and again, and then a force (-f) optin as suggested by apt-get.
Perl seems to have kludged itself..
Anyway, it seemed to run fine, SO I didn't worry too much.. Then I was trying to connect to a different network segment, and ran:
/etc/inetd/networks -restart
and it failed; reporting:
ifup /etc/network/interfaces Function not implemented
Could not read interfaces file: /etc/networks/interfaces
Of course, the file is there, readable (544), and fine.
Any call to "ifup -a" gave this result.
I tried to reboot (big mistake, since networking was running fine then), but now boot gives the same error, and networking does not even start (above error).
Now, I am stuck, networking doesn't work, so I can't even get my stuff off of the machine to start over and rebuild.
Help!
Gregory Guthrie
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